'Jersey Boys' travels well

7:58 PM,
Oct. 24, 2013

The 'Jersey Boys' cast performs 'Sherry.'

Written by

Fiona Soltes
| For The Tennessean

Bob Gaudio remembers feeling some apprehension when the smash hit musical "Jersey Boys: The Story of Franki Valli and The Four Seasons" was about to open in Melbourne, Australia. But all it took was a headline about mafia kingpins being arrested to set him at ease.

"I thought, 'OK, they're going to get the story here,'" says Gaudio, a Nashville resident and member of the group that created songs such as "Sherry," "Big Girls Don't Cry" and "Walk Like a Man." "I guess that's the point. There's that underworld in pretty much every country, and the fight to rise above those elements. ... Everybody has ...